What: Twelve-foot bronze statue showing Sacajawea with her baby strapped to her back.

Where: Bismarck, North Dakota

Who:Maria Sanford, pioneer, educator, and civic leader

What: Seven-foot bronze statue with an inscription on the base calling her “the best known and best loved woman in Minnesota.”

Where: Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.

Who:Samantha Smith, ambassador for peace between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. when she was 10 years old. She died at age 13 in a plane crash while returning to Maine from Europe.

What: Bronze statue showing her posed with a dove of peace and proclaiming her “Maine's young ambassador of goodwill.”

Where: State Capitol, Augusta, Maine

Who: Statue of Liberty, the most famous symbolic statue of a woman, modeled after Marie Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother.

What: 151-foot copper figure of a woman draped in a loose robe, holding a torch in her uplifted right hand and a tablet with the date of the Declaration of Independence in Roman numerals in her left. Installed in 1886.